Hi all, I have the following script (just a test):
--- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use HTML::Entities; my $string = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; my $string2 = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; $string = decode_entities($string); print $string, "\n", $string2, "\n"; --- This prints Alfred D?blin: Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz in my terminal Now the perldoc for HTML::Entities says >decode_entities( $string ) >This routine replaces HTML entities found in the $string with the >corresponding ISO-8859-1 character, and if possible (under perl 5.8 >or later) will replace to Unicode characters. Unrecognized enti- >ties are left alone. I do have Perl 5.8.1, so I'd expect the decode_entities method to return a Unicode character string. Why doesn't it do that? Thanks, Jan -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
